Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-239).
Contents:
Introduction: instigating opportunity in inequitable times / Alan Jenkins, Brian D. Smedley, and Bill Lann Lee -- You can take it with you: income and wealth across generations / Jared Bernstein -- Educational quality and equality : what it will take to leave no child behind / Linda Darling-Hammond -- Connecting families to opportunity: the next generation of housing mobility policy / Philip Tegeler -- Reducing incarceration to expand opportunity / Marc Mauer -- Why health care equity is essential to opportunity-and how to get there / Brian D. Smedley -- Measuring the extent and forms of discrimination in the marketplace: lessons from paired testing research / Margery Austin Turner and Carla Herbig -- Finding America : creating educational opportunity for our newest citizens / Edward E. Telles and Vilma Ortiz -- Notes.
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